Gaza ceasefire anniversary Families still await relief

Dec 2023

On the first anniversary of the Gaza ceasefire, the host says Hamas disarmament, Israeli withdrawal and reconstruction have not happened. Pia Steckelbach reports from Gaza City on Saleh Al Arabid, whose home was partly collapsed by a December 2023 airstrike and whose family could not be buried. The report says eleven bodies remain in the rubble; Al Arabid names his wife Darin, daughter Rawia and son Nadir among the dead on an upper floor. He lives in the ruins awaiting excavators, while insufficient heavy machinery enters Gaza. The report recalls Trump's plan and no-shooting pledge, attributes more than 1,400 further deaths and a cumulative toll above 74,000 to Gaza's Health Ministry, reports Israeli control of more than 60 percent of Gaza, and says Hamas is rebuilding structures in the remainder while Israeli attacks continue. ICRC representative Amani Al Naouq describes daily deprivation and shortages of medicine and rubble-clearing equipment. Al Arabid describes overwhelming grief; Steckelbach says the number of bodies beneath rubble remains impossible to estimate and no durable end is in sight. Figures, political assessments and the family's testimony retain their attribution.

An airstrike hit Saleh Al Arabid's home in Gaza City in December 2023, partly collapsing it and killing family members who could not be buried. Tagesthemen's October 10, 2026 report says eleven bodies remain under the rubble; Al Arabid identifies his wife Darin, daughter Rawia and son Nadir among those on the upper floors. He continues living in the ruins and waiting for excavators while insufficient heavy machinery enters Gaza. Tagesschau's same-day report carries compatible testimony about the family's unrecovered remains and grief. The day of the strike and a final total of those killed are not established by these accounts; the eleven refers to bodies reported still buried.